MLB teams are fighting on Twitter instead of the field
Managing Editor
We've criticized baseball for their inability to adapt to the changing times. Yet, for all of baseball's archaic traditions there's one new technology teams are jumping on.
Twitter.
What makes the use of this technology a little more exciting - then initially thought - is how MLB teams are using the social media platform.
Trash tweeting divisional rivals.
The Red Sox and Rays went at it a little over a week ago on the social media site, and now the Braves and Nationals are picking a fight with one another as well.
The video below provides some background on how this Twitter beef all started, and the tweets after are in reference to that video. Enjoy, twits...
Follow Scott Levesque on Twitter at @scottlevesque.
We've criticized baseball for their inability to adapt to the changing times. Yet, for all of baseball's archaic traditions there's one new technology teams are jumping on.
Twitter.
What makes the use of this technology a little more exciting - then initially thought - is how MLB teams are using the social media platform.
Trash tweeting divisional rivals.
The Red Sox and Rays went at it a little over a week ago on the social media site, and now the Braves and Nationals are picking a fight with one another as well.
The video below provides some background on how this Twitter beef all started, and the tweets after are in reference to that video. Enjoy, twits...
Clown move bro
— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) August 7, 2013
@Braves Which part, giving up the home run, or drilling the 20-year-old on the first pitch his next time up?
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) August 7, 2013
Follow Scott Levesque on Twitter at @scottlevesque.
